AAA: SWB off.
AA: Trenton (9-4) won 3-1.
Abreu 4 IP, 1 R, 6 H, 4 W, 2 K. 5.25
Lane (W, 1-0, 1.29) 2 IP, 0 R, 0 H, 2 W, 3 K.
Acevedo (H, 1) 2 IP, 0 R, 0 H, 0 W, 1 K. 0.00
D. Alvarez (S, 2) 1 IP, 0 R, 0 H, 0 W, 1 K. 3.00
High A: Tampa (5-10) lost 10-3. C Jason Lopez 2 hits, solo HR. CF Pablo Olivares solo HR.
Low A: Charleston (7-8) lost 7-5. LF Canaan Smith 3-run HR. Dalton Higgins three scoreless IP of relief.
Posted in Mike's Musings, Minor Leagues, Players, Regular Season
Tagged Abreu, Acevedo, Alvarez, Higgins, Lane, Lopez, Olivares, Smith
With all the injuries, a lot of guys in the Yanks’ lineup are AAA players.
That showed Friday night as the Yanks only got four hits—two by Clint Frazier—in losing to KC 6-1.
No one is going to feel sorry for you, though, and other players have to step up.
A win would have put the Yanks at .500. Instead they fall to 8-10 on the season.
Domingo German showed why he is sometimes such a tease. 9 K in 6 IP, but he gave up 2 HR in taking the loss. He wasn’t too bad, 3 R in 6 IP, but with the offense being feeble last night, he basically would have had to pitch a shutout.
The Yanks’ only run came via a SF by Gleyber Torres in the first inning.
German (L, 3-1, 2.37) 6 IP, 3 R, 6 H, 0 W, 9 K.
Holder 1/3 IP, 2 R, 3 H, 0 W, 1 K. 7.00
Britton 2/3 IP, 0 R, 0 H, 0 W, 1 K. 3.68
Green 1 IP, 0 R, 2 H, 0 W, 2 K. 8.59
Harvey 1 IP, 1 R, 0 H, 1 W, 1 K. 1.80
Posted in Mike's Musings, Players, Regular Season
Tagged Britton, Frazier, German, Green, Harvey, Holder, Torres
AAA: SWB (8-6) lost both games of a DH to Lehigh Valley, and both by 5-3 scores.
Game 1: SS Thairo Estrada 2 hits. 3B Mandy Alvarez 2 hits, 2 RBI. C Ryan Lavarnway 3 for 3. RF Zach Zehner 2 hits, RBI.
Loaisiga (L, 0-1, 3.60) 5 IP, 2 R, 2 H, 3 W, 7 K.
Game 2: 2B Gosuke Katoh 2 hits, RBI. Solo HR. Chance Adams gave up 5 runs in the fourth, inc. 2 HR. ERA 10.32.
AA: Trenton (8-4) also lost 5-3. Brody Koerner 7 IP, 5 R, 3 ER.
High A: Tampa (5-9) threw a 2-hitter and scored six in the eighth to win 6-1. CF Pablo Olivares 2 RBI. DH Dermis Garcia 2 RBI. LF Isiah Gilliam 2 hits, RBI. C Donny Sands 2 hits.
Deivi Garcia 4 2/3 IP, 1 R, 1 H, 3 W, 8 K. 3.75
Bristo 2 1/3 IP, 0 R, 1 H, 0 W, 3 K. 2.45
Kriske (W, 1-1, 0.00) 2 IP, 0 R, 0 H, 0 W, 4 K.
Low A: Charleston (7-7) won 7-1. CF Josh Stowers 2 hits, RBI. 1B Max Burt 2 hits, 2 RBI.
SS Eduardo Torrealba 2 hits, RBI. 3B Nelson Gomez and C Mickey Gasper each with a solo HR.
Orozco (W, 1-1, 1.88) 6 IP, 1 R, 5 H, 4 W, 3 K.
C. Espinal (S, 1) 3 IP, 0 R, 0 H, 0 W, 7 K. 0.00
J.A. Happ entered the game with an ERA of 8.76, and things didn’t look too promising early on because he gave up a HR in the first and a 2-run HR in the second to put the Yanks (8-9) down 3-0.
Happ settled down, however, and Brett Gardner’s 100th career HR—a grand slam—enabled the Yanks to beat Boston 5-3 to take both games of the two game series.
The Yanks got a run in the fourth on an RBI double by Clint Frazier, who had three of the Yanks’ five hits.
Gardner’s slam came in the seventh. It was his fourth HR of the season.
Ottavino got into, and out of, trouble in the eighth.
Happ 6 1/3 IP, 3 R, 6 H, 1 W, 4 K. Gave up 2 HR. 7.23
Kahnle (W, 1-0, 3.38) 2/3 IP, 0 R, 0 H, 0 W, 1 K.
Ottavino (H, 2) 1 IP, 0 R, 2 H, 1 W, 1 K. 1.00
Chapman (S, 3) 1 IP, 0 R, 0 H, 0 W, 1 K. 2.57
Posted in Mike's Musings, Players, Regular Season
AAA: SWB was rained out. DH today. For news on the Mike Ford call-up, see the major league report.
AA: Trenton (8-3) won 7-6 in 11 innings. C Francisco Diaz 2 hits, 2 RBI. DH Wendell Rijo 2 hits. Adonis Rosa 5 scoreless relief innings. Kaleb Ort added two more.
High A: Tampa (4-9) lost 11-6. DH Dermis Garcia 2 HR, 4 RBI. SS Oswaldo Cabrera 2 RBI. CF Pablo Olivares a hit, drew 3 walks.
Low A: Charleston (6-7) gave up two in the top of the ninth and lost 4-3. RF Josh Stowers 2 hits. LF Canaan Smith 2 RBI. CF Brandon Lockridge 2 hits.
Posted in Mike's Musings, Minor Leagues, Players, Regular Season
Tagged Cabrera, Diaz, Garcia, Lockridge, Olivares, Ort, Rijo, Rosa, Smith, Stowers
James Paxton and Mike Tauchman hadn’t done too much in their brief stints as Yankees before last night but that all changed in an 8-0 win for the Yankees (7-9) over Boston.
Paxton showed the ace-like quality he may possess in pitching eight innings of shutout baseball, giving up just two hits and striking out 12.
This is the Paxton the Yanks traded for. There were rumors that earlier this season he was tipping his pitches. Well, he sure corrected that last night in a dominating performance.
Tauchman, a reserve OF pressed into service because of all the injuries, drove in four runs and hit his first MLB HR.
The Yanks got two in the third on a double by Gardner, who scored on a two-out single by LeMahieu. After a walk to Judge, Voit singled in LeMahieu.
Clint Frazier led off the fourth with his fourth HR of the season. Two outs later, Austin Romine singled and scored on a double by Tauchman.
Tauchman hit a 3-run HR in the sixth, his first MLB HR, to make it 7-0, and Gleyber Torres homered in the seventh (4) for the final score of 8-0.
Aaron Judge had 2 hits, and Gio Urshela made a great defensive play.
Paxton (W, 2-2, 3.91) 8 IP, 0 R, 2 H, 1 W, 12 K. 1 HBP
Harvey 1 IP, 0 R, 1 H, 0 W, 0 K. 0 .00
Earlier in the day, Greg Bird was placed on the DL with a torn plantar fasciitis. It’s been a rough go for Bird, who always appears to be injured. He’ll be out a while. He was struggling this season, going just 6 for 35 (.171) with only one extra base hit. His HR was his only RBI. In his 35 at bats, he had struck out 16x.
Sad to say, but eventually the Yanks have to wonder what to do with Bird. If he’s always hurt, he isn’t helping you. Eventually, the Yanks may have to cut the cord with him.
To replace Bird, the Yanks called up Mike Ford, lefty-hitting 1B, from AAA. Ford is a “Yankee Doodle Dandy” born on the 4th of July who turns 27 this July. In 10 games for AAA SWB this season, Ford was hitting .410 with 5 HR and 14 RBI.
Last season, in 102 games for AAA SWB, Ford hit .253-15-52. In 2017, between AA/AAA, he hit .270-20-86 and drew 94 walks. (126 games, 101 at AA).
For Mike Ford, opportunity knocks.
Posted in In-Season Moves, Mike's Musings, Minor Leagues, Players, Regular Season
Tagged Bird, Ford, Frazier, Harvey, Judge, LeMahieu, Paxton, Tauchman, Torres, Urshela, Voit
The Yanks were off yesterday. They face Boston at home tonight.
AAA: SWB (8-4) beat Lehigh Valley 6-5 in 10 innings. 2b Billy Fleming grand slam. RF/1B Ryan McBroom solo HR. LF Zach Zehner 2 hits. C Ryan Lavarnway GW single.
AA: Trenton (7-3) won 8-6. 2B Hoy Jun Park 3 hits. SS Kyle Holder 2 RBI. RF Ben Ruta 3 hits. 1B Chris Gittens 4 for 4, 5 RBI, inc. HR. C Jorge Saez 2 hits, solo HR.
High A: Tampa (4-8) lost 4-1, getting just 3 hits.
Low A: Charleston (6-6) won 6-2.
CF Brandon Lockridge solo HR
2B Kyle Gray 2 hits
1B Mickey Gaspar 3 hits, solo HR
3B Nelson Gomez 2 hits.
DH Eric Wagaman 2 hits, RBI
LF Canaan Smith 2 RBI
SS Eduardo Torrealba 2 hits
Reliever Shawn Semple 4 IP, 5 K.
Semple, a 23 yr. old RHP, is 1-0, 0.69 as Charleston’s closer so far this year. In three games, 13 innings, he’s given up one run on three hits and has struck out 26. Seems like the kid could be getting a promotion to Tampa soon.
Nice team effort.
